Check out last week’s events with our weekly recap!
18 January | Möhlin (SUI)
What happened
It was a perfect – and emotional – end-of-career performance in Möhlin for Markus Bröll, who added the UCI World Cup title to his 2019 UCI World Championships win. Bröll – who now retires from competition - and his team-mate Patrick Schnetzer (RC Höchst 1/ AUT) sailed through their matches at the UCI World Cup Final and put in a dominating performance to beat Germany’s RMC Stein (Gerhard Mlady / Bernd Mlady) 9:1 in the final. The match for third place saw another German team, RV Obernfeld (Andre Kopp / Raphael Kopp) get the better of Switzerland’s RMV Pfungen (Severin Waibel / Benjamin Waibel) with a score of 6:2. Throughout the day, the hall in Möhlin was packed with spectators, eager to watch the season’s best teams in action. After an intense competition, emotion took over at the official ceremony where tribute was paid to Bröll and another team retiring from competition: Switzerland’s RS Altdorf 1 (Roman Schneider / Paul Looser).
Results
19 January | Nommay Pays de Montbéliard (FRA)
What happened
After two consecutive third places, Annemarie Worst was back to her winning ways on Sunday. The winner of rounds three and four of the 2019-2020 Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup got the better of fellow Dutch athlete and overall UCI World Cup leader Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado in this weekend’s 7th round. With one round to race – in Hoogerheide Provincie Noord-Brabant (NED) next weekend, Worst now sits just five points behind Alvarado in the overall standings. American Katie Compton, aged 41, showed her younger rivals that she is still a danger, coming in for a strong third place in France.
In the Men Elite race, Belgian Eli Iserbyt claimed victory after an intense battle with UCI World Cup leader Toon Aerts, who remains in the lead of the overall standings and appears to have recovered from the fractured rib suffered in Namur on December 22. Iserbyt and Aerts rode away from the bunch on the second lap of the 10-lap race and played out a two-man cat and mouse game that had spectators holding their breath. Iserbyt put in a final attack just before the finishing straight to win by 8 seconds. Belgian champion Laurens Sweeck took third place a further 1:08 back.
Results